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Bill To Save Net Neutrality Is 46 Votes Short In US House (arstechnica.com)
Congressional Democrats seeking to reinstate net neutrality rules are still 46 votes short of getting the measure through the House of Representatives. Ars Technica reports: The U.S. Senate voted last month to reverse the Federal Communications Commission's repeal of net neutrality rules, with all members of the Democratic caucus and three Republicans voting in favor of net neutrality. A discharge petition needs 218 signatures to force a House vote on the same net neutrality bill, and 218 votes would also be enough to pass the measure. So far, the petition has signatures from 172 representatives, all Democrats. That number hasn't changed in two weeks. The outlook looks grim as Republicans have a 235-193 majority in the House. If you're curious to see which representatives haven't signed the petition, you can view this page maintained by net neutrality group Fight for the Future.
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.
IOW: Call your (R) representative to hear why the free market, Constitution, and Jesus demand everything Comcast lobbyists want.
And the next time someone says there is no difference between the two parties, ask about Net Neutrality, labor laws, and "crisis pregnancy clinics" to name some partisan issues from the past three days.
is not relevant, they pass hundreds of bills. Most all die in the US Senate. In the US Senate it takes 60 votes to decide to talk about a bill from the house. Most all bills from the house are never brought to the floor. The 100 senators agree on almost nothing. Heck I can not even recall the last time America even had a budget.
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Gotta love it, no budget the government just goes and spends what ever they want. Bad karma for the young, the gravy train will come to an end some time.
Just my 2 cents
/me Shoots fireworks off. Damn proud of my country. USA! USA! USA! 4 more years!
Abuse of power is all fun & games when you're in power, the problem is when you're on the receiving end.
Do you really want Trump's tactics to be normalized when the Democrats get back in power?
Trump learned his tactics from the Obama administration. They already were normalized!
"I don't need congress. I have a phone and a pen." Unable to get something akin to net neutrality through congress so Obama had the FCC unreasonably reclassify, which was recently lawfully overturned.
The actual effects of Donald Trump are the same as what republicans warned us of during Obama. I dislike them regardless of who does it, so was called a nasty libtard for eight years and now I get to be called a GOP Nazi for 4-8 years. When will people learn?
Let the people decide. I doubt they'll believe Trump promises again.
No one believed Trump's promises in the first place.
He was elected because he wasn't Hillary.
Oh, and he'd appoint judges who place following the Constitution and the law above the desired result. Because when the choice is between "Compelled association/speech violates the First Amendment" or "Public employee unions could lose funding", HOW THE FUCKING HELL DO YOU DECIDE FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONS?!?!?!?!
Do you really think it's OK to violate the First Amendment and compel financial donations from unwilling persons just to fund the Democratic Party?
Who's the fucking fascist?
Trump's overall approval rating has been consistently low compared to other recent presidents. But among Republicans, his approval rating is at 90%.
The Republican party is Trump's bitch.
Are you trying to persuade anybody? Because, that's not actually how you do it.
You are actively working for a midterm loss and for Trump's second term.